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This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.
An account of 140 careers, ranging from studio work-horse to genius, illustrated with photographs of the directors themselves as well as scenes from their most characteristic movies.
Finler looks at the advent of the film industry world-wide, including information on major genres, studios, stars and directors as well as providing an outstanding collection of images from the early days of cinema.
Outlines the plot and gives background information for the motion pictures that were the most successful, commercially, from the thirties through the seventies
"There have been many homages to the Master. But it has been almost a decade since the most recent spate of books, and Hitchcock in Hollywood admirably fills a new need." "In this new and original assessment of Hitchcock's American career from his arrival in Hollywood in 1939 up to his last films in the 1970s, Joel Finler shows how Hitchcock succeeded in quickly fitting into the American studio system with its emphasis on stars, technical expertise, and success at the box office to become one of the most influential directors of all time. These years cover Hitchcock's most accomplished period of filmmaking and the author uncovers many links with the best of Hitchcock's earlier British films ...
Tracing the development of cinema from the first experiments of Edison to all the winners of the 2006 Academy Awards, this bestselling annual is the definitive chronology of the movies.
A year-by-year history of the movies, from the birth of the film industry to 2003, combines materials from films, promotional posters, and other sources to chronicle the major developments in the field.